Install Windows 1. Virtual. Box and It’s Guest Additions. Everyone wish to play around and know what is new in the upcoming Operating Systems of their existing OS. It is always preferred to install separately without disturbing existing setup. Especially when the tech giant announced their next big OS, Windows 1. Yes, all like to install and see what is new in it.

This guide shows you how to install Windows 1. Virtual. Box, the free desktop virtualization software on your existing same Windows 7 or Windows 8. Oracle is not supporting Windows 1. OS currently (since it is the first technical preview version at the moment), therefore Virtual.

Box guest additions installation is not straight forward. But I will show you a trick to install Virtual. Box guest additions on Windows 1.

Microsoft has changed the way of releasing technical preview this time. They have introduced Windows insider program and your inputs about the new OS can be shared in the forum with Microsoft engineers and programmers. So, we can hope some major changes in the final version than the current technical preview of Windows 1.

Final release is expected somewhere in year 2. As . Especially you may face more when you run it on Virtualization environment. Here are Windows 1. Microsoft site here. Processor : 1. GHz or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2. RAM : 1. GB (3. 2- bit) or 2.

During the guest additions installation, when prompted if you would like to install drivers, click the Install button. Once you’ve installed the guest additions.

GB (6. 4- bit)Hard disk space : 1. GBAbove are very similar to Windows 8. Microsoft say if you are able to run Windows 8. Windows 1. 0 also will work fine. That applies to Virtual. Box too. If you were able to run Windows 8.

Virtual. Box with your physical computer, the same computer and BIOS settings are good enough to run Windows 1. Virtual. Box. Steps to Install Windows 1. Virtual. Box. It is recommended to have latest Oracle Virtual.

QEMU (short for Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization (not to be confused with hardware-assisted. UPDATE: For Mac OS X Sierra please follow this post How to install Mac OS X Sierra 10.12 on VirtualBox? Years ago I wrote a post for installing Mac OS X on VirtualBox.

Box for this installation. You may get few errors if you have older versions especially if Windows 8. OS version. 1) Make sure your physical computer is meeting the requirements. Hardware virtualization should be enabled and NX/XD too.

Download Windows 1. Microsoft site here. You must have Windows live (Microsoft account) to access the download page.

If your physical computer processor is 6. Once you have completed downloading ISO file. Create a new virtual machine on Oracle Virtual.

Box. Create a new virtual hard disk on the next screen. There are few complaints about not seeing 6. Microsoft Windows Xp Professional Sp3 32 Bits Clean. Windows 8. 1 option even though the physical processor supports 6. You should check two things here to solve this issue.

Make sure virtualization technology VTx/AMD- v is enabled,2) Disable Hyper- V platform on your Windows 8 or Windows 8. Hyper- V role on your Window PC, then you have think twice before disabling Hyper- V feature. Make sure that motherboard settings of virtual machine remains as below. Go to . Installation steps are very similar to Windows 8. Microsoft has not changed anything (I feel they should have) during the installation process. Since we need to use Microsoft account ( I’m already using Windows 8.

Windows 1. 0, it asked how to setup my new Windows 1. I did not want to transfer or replicate the same settings of  my Windows 8. Windows 1. 0 technical preview on Virtual. Box, therefor I have selected the option of . You can skip Sky. Drive settings in the next screen. After initial configuration, setting up apps and personalized settings, you should be able to see Windows 1.

Windows 8 and 8. 1. Virtual. Box Guest Additions Installation on Windows 1. Guest Virtual Machine.

As of now Windows 1. Oracle Virtual. Box, guest additions do not work properly. Even the installation is not straight forward. If you run the guest additions exe file directly, it will show below error message.

It is due to compatibility issue with the latest Windows 1. OS. There is a workaround to install it successfully. Change the compatibility mode to Windows 8 then execute the file. Right click on corresponding exe file ( 3. Properties and under Compatibility tab, select Windows 8 then press Apply.

After changing compatibility mode, execute the exe file. Virtual. Box guest additions will install this time successfully.

Even though it has installed properly and asked to restart the guest computer, I have not seen any improvements in the display performance. Still there is no full screen mode or any changes in display performance, we can’t blame anyone here because new Windows 1. Virtual. Box is not supporting Windows 1. OS. I will be happy to hear your findings and tweaks you have made to improve Windows 1. Oracle Virtual. Box.

Here is the working Windows 1. Virtual. Box which is fair enough to play around and find what’s new in the latest Operating System from Microsoft.

How to install OS X Mountain Lion in Virtualbox with i. Atkos, which is great practice for installing Mac OS X on your actual computer. However, the Hackboot method was rather long and complicated, and there is now an easier alternative available- - i. Atkos ML2. While we've already shown you how to , it also works great with virtual machines.

Computer Requirements. You need a computer with Windows to run Mac OS X on Windows (of course). If you have a 3. 2- bit copy of Windows, you can only install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on Virtualbox. You will need at least 4 GB of RAM and a dual- core (two core) processor or better.

Personally, the computer I was using for this had a 4- core processor and 1. GB RAM, which is way more than enough. You also need about 1. GB of unused hard drive space.

If it doesn't directly tell you how many cores your processor has, look up your processor model on Wikipedia or Google. You also want to find out whether your processor is made by .

Computers with AMD processors will not work with Mountain Lion. General Requirements. Virtualbox : This virtualization suite is free, and though it doesn't offer official support for Mac OS X, it works well enough.

Atkos ML2: Unfortunately, the standard method for installing OS X Mountain Lion on PCs (which uses a paid copy of the Mountain Lion installer) doesn't work with Virtualbox. Instead, you'll have to distros like i.

Atkos, which is currently the most popular distro for Mountain Lion. I won't go into details, but you can download these copies from about any bittorrent website by using a bittorrent client (it's a .

Multibeast 4. 6. 1 : You will need to use Multibeast 4. Hackintosh post- installation tool, to set up the Mountain Lion virtual machine after the initial installation. While Multibeast 4.

Mac OS X Lion instead of Mountain Lion, in our case, it actually works better than newer versions of Multibeast. Registration is required on the tonymacx. Step 1: Prep. Download Virtualbox, install it, and open it up. Also, if you want to be able to view USB devices from your OS X Mountain Lion virtual machine, download the Virtualbox Extension Pack and run it before going to Step 2. Step 2: Create a new virtual machine. Give your new virtual machine a name, and choose . Choosing 3. 2- bit will result in a critical .

Every time you turn on Mac OS X, that RAM that you assign here will be used to run the virtual machine. The RAM will be given back to your normal computer after you turn Virtualbox off. Virtualbox will ask you what type of disk you want to create: VDI, VDMK, or VHD. VDI is the original format for Virtualbox, while VDMK is the format used by VMWare. If you're considering getting a copy of VMWare, you might want to choose VDMK. Otherwise, just choose VDI.

I recommend creating a dynamically expanding disk; the only other option, fixed- size storage, will eat up your hard drive. Step 3: Give your new virtual machine an operating system. But don't stop now- -you still need to change a few settings before your machine will actually work. Your new virtual machine will show up on the left column of the Virtualbox start page. Once the settings open up, go to . This is by far the most important single setting that you will need to change.

Unfortunately, Mac OSX requires 'speshul' EFI, so the EFI that Virtualbox uses doesn't work. In the storage tree box, you'll see a CD icon labeled .

Click on it and click . In the window that pops up, choose the .

Atkos ML2. You will come up to the i. Atkos boot screen, with a CD icon in the middle. Oh no, the page is blank! We'll have to fix that. To do this, start up Disk Utility (located under the Utilities menu). Click on the Virtualbox hard disk in Disk Utility and erase it. Don't worry, there's nothing important on it.

This is where using a distro becomes really useful: i. Atkos allows you to install extra Hackintosh drivers and kexts, straight from the OS X Mountain Lion installer. In addition to this selection, go to Bootloader Options - > Graphics Mode and choose whatever resolution best fits your monitor (in my case, I chose . Selecting this won't actually change anything at the moment; however, you will need this for Step 7, when we make the screen of the virtual machine bigger. When the installation finishes, Mac OS X will crash into a black screen with white text. This is normal; Mac OS X has installed successfully.

Now proceed to the next step. Step 5: Boot it up. Restart your virtual machine, and eject i. Atkos from your virtual DVD drive. To eject i. Atkos, right- click on the CD icon at the bottom right of the Virtualbox window, and un- check the i.

Atkos file. Your mouse cursor will probably be trapped inside the virtual machine. Press the right . Now, at the bootup screen, you'll see an icon for the hard drive where you installed Mountain Lion (also, the screen of your virtual machine might be bigger than before). Fill it out, then mission accomplished! However, you're not done yet!

You still have to enable sound on your virtual machine, and increase the screen resolution. Step 6: Enable sound. By default, your ethernet (internet) should work in the virtual machine. However, the virtual machine will not have sound, or be able to boot from the hard drive without help. To fix this, open Safari, and download Multibeast 4. While Multibeast 4.

Mac OS X Lion instead of Mountain Lion, in our case, it actually works better than newer versions of Multibeast. Registration is required on the tonymacx. DOWNLOAD: Multibeast 4. Before starting Multibeast, you have to go the .

Once that's done, run Multibeast and install the following options. Mac OS X will now be able to play audio normally. Congratulations! Step 7: Make the screen bigger. Though this step is optional, I still recommend you do it anyways.

Anyways, when you first use your virtual machine, you'll probably notice one thing: your screen resolution is 1. Since Virtualbox doesn't .

But here's how you can change it anyways. Open the Command Prompt in Windows (make sure you are logged into an Administrator account on Windows).

You can do this by opening the Start Menu, and typing . Then, type the following command into the Command Prompt. Next, type in this command: vboxmanage setextradata .

Once that's done, start your virtual machine again. Congrats! Recap. I'll just repeat what I said in my other two Virtualbox guides. Installing Mac OS X on a virtual machine is excellent practice for the real thing: installing Mac OS X on your actual computer. Don't get too comfortable, though. Compared to most computers, Virtualbox virtual machines are very . You can't count on being that lucky with a real PC. And even if you don't plan on doing this for real, with a Hackintosh, it's still a really cool thing to try out over the weekend.